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Auckland-based Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards 2013 and the subject of a 60 Minutes documentary. Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her life in crime (2008) was a Christmas pick in the UK's Independent newspaper in 2009. Drayton has written three other groundbreaking biographies - the latest is Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love, which she'll be discussing with Kim. In 2007 she was awarded a National Library Fellowship, and in 2017 she received a prestigious Logan Nonfiction Fellowship at the Carey Institute in Upstate New York.
